Babirussa

Babirussa (lat. Babyrousa babyrussa, sometimes armor. Babyrousa babynissa) - mammal of the family of the suborder of non-ruminant pigs.

Look babirussa atypical for the family - her little head relative to the body, very short ears, a characteristic arching his back, quite long legs and very rare, almost missing a woolen blanket. In male hypertrophied and lower and upper canines. And the top sprout through the skin of the upper jaw are bent up and back so that they can grow into the skin with his forehead in old animals.
Babirussa lives on the island of Sulawesi. In her hunt for a tasty low-fat meat, skin and fangs.
At the present time it is brought in the International Red Book as a vulnerable species

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